Creativity blown to 'Oblivion'

Stop me if you've seen this one before:
Oblivion, the latest sci-fi flick from Tom Cruise.

Following in the form of those in the genre before it, director Joseph Kosinski's
Oblivion is very much in the footsteps of the classics. Unfortunately, it adds little
to the canon.

The movie is exciting, but it lacks the clarity that put the classics on the pedestal
on which they reside. While Tom Cruise performs well if unspectacularly, the roles of some of the
other actors (Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo and Olga Kurylenko) are weak.

Critic Roger Moore thinks that Oblivion was released exactly when it was supposed to be in
theaters.

"That makes
Oblivion exactly the type of sci-fi film that one would expect in April — epic and often
exciting but too familiar and too bland to cut it as a summer release," he
said
in his review.